Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Exactly, it was a pre-planned attack on Zelenskyy, designed to give Trump an excuse to blame Ukraine for Trump's failure to "end the war in 24 hours/100 days".

However, Zelenskyy did make a mistake by speaking to Trump in English. He should have used a translator, that would give him time to react more calmly to Vance's and Trump's bulling tactics.

it really is going to be nukes for all, it’s the only sane thing to do now.

At least SOME bit of potential good news on this front. Glad to see EUROPE taking this on. Ukraine using Starlink on the frontlines is a clear and present danger to them now

"It’s happening—Europe is building its own Starlink by leveraging existing infrastructure like GovSatCom, Eutelsat, Hispasat, and SES while redefining the scope of IRIS²."

Zelenskyy should have stood down when Trump was elected.

I'd like to see Trump make belittling jibes to Klitschko about how he's dressed.

You really would have to be very naive to think Trump and Vance behaved in that way spontaneously, without it being planned and discussed beforehand. It still didn't go very well for them, no doubt it appealed to their base, but not at all to the centreground.

The US is now amoral, unfortunately some in Europe are still asleep and won't accept America can't be relied on in the short or long term and it needs to tool up very, very quickly.

In fairness I think Europe is waking up to that, along with other democratic nations like Canada and Australia.

We will ramp up arms production and Ukrainian support but we will never treat the US as anything but a friend, and our leaders will always have an olive branch extended to the White House, which is absolutely the correct thing to do. For one, it forces Trump to publicly abandon long standing friendships without much cause other than his love for Putin(an angry Europe easily feeds into his false narrative of Europe taking the US for a ride). And two, this administration will not be there forever, and whoever is there in 28 would hopefully be open to a more constructive relationship, which Europe obviously would be.

Trump is burning down the states political infrastructure, we don’t need to help to put more fuel on the fire.

Calm down and follow the conversation. I was clearly referring to EU and Europe.

But as you bring it up, if the US forced all its tax exiles to return home to high taxes, its own economy would be f**ked by the likes of China and India and their rock bottom costs. Social media punditry mightn't like to hear it, but economics is a bit more nuanced than "we are a one trick pony". How's the US motor industry doing? Is isolationism the route we should all be going down to achieve great success?

No he didn't and the bulk of world opinion is that he was ambushed by two hillbillies. King Charles thought it so outrageous he slipped in a meeting with Zelensky before a previously scheduled meeting with Kraznov to troll him, likely because he felt embarrassed at having extended an invitation to him at all, after that massive diplomacy failure on the part of two minor characters from Deliverance. Charles was clearly showing the world where his sympathies lay in that outrageous staged insulting of a foreign leader.

Just look at how stupid Vance's hit points were - "have you said thanks once" - The Trump administration has given no aid to Ukraine whatsoever - all of the aid has come from Biden's administration. Thanks for calling Zelensky a dictator, thanks for lying about the amount of US aid, thanks for suggesting extorting $500B worth of minerals for the handful of clapped out rusty beans they were given by someone else? Then to start berating him about conscription - what brain-dead hypocrisy is that when the US had massive levels of conscription in WW2 and throughout the Vietnam war era?

It was entirely orchestrated from the moment they sat down with that incredibly obvious staged criticism of his clothing from the boyfriend of one of Trumps hand-picked cretins.

In fact, everything was so obviously staged, stupid and unsubtle it was pure Russian 'vranyo', so Putrid or someone in the FSB likely wrote that script. Something so obviously ludicrous we are not meant to believe it, just read the subtext that the big boys are putting the boot in, in public view for the world to see, and no one can do anything about it. Putrid's demonstration to the Orcs that the Whitehouse is his - 'look they are even doing vranyo now, like good little Orc puppets should. Witness the power of your leader.'

He's a literal wa**er so I wouldn't place too much stock in what he spews, although doubtless plenty idiots will lap it up.

I believe that was Ukraine's US ambassador.

replacing Starlink RIGHT NOW/IMMEDIATELY is the very first thing that the ‘ Group of the Willing’ - who met in London on Sunday last- should be doing. Hopefully it will be a joint venture between a number of them. The group would want to be careful as to who can use /has access to it as some of the EU members might ‘sell on’ its benefits.!

Why is US being 'happy to exploit a large scale pre-existing movement' somehow OK, so long as they didn't 'kick it off'?

just give yer man vance a jar of doctored sudocream to slap on donnies nappy rash…job done both and a lot cheaper then a warhead!

(im expecting black helicoptors to be swarming overhead at any moment for even suggesting this…disclaimer…no nappies or arses were harmed in the making of this post)

Israel is actively trying to get the Orcs reinstated in Syria because they think it will keep Syria weak and because they are really scared of Turkey gaining a major presence there. The lesser of two evils.

Which makes Israel very popular in Orcistan at the moment.

In Romania a far right Presidential candidate came out of nowhere with a sudden Tiktok campaign. Predictably he is pro-Russian and anti-NATO. His acquaintances and bodyguards have reportedly been discovered with millions in cash. Putin is engaged in attempts to destabilise them (along with Moldova, etc)

He is currently engaged in hybrid warfare against Europe as a whole. Again a reminder that nightly his state TV hosts talk of little else but invading European countries.

Romania has been a NATO member for over 20 years. They can have NATO bases. NATO is not a threat to Russia, it's only a threat to Putin's ambitions to invade other countries.